ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,586, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"Remote programming of a power tool" was invented by Steven J. Phillips (Ellicott City, Md.), Oleksiy Sergyeyenko (Baldwin, Md.), Christopher W. Shook (Bel Air, Md.), Wong Kun Ng (New York) and Kevin Wenger (Bel Air, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill system including a drill and a secondary computing device. The drill includes a housing, a controller, a wireless transceiver, a motor, and a chuck. The motor, the controller and the wireless transceiver are housed in the housing. The chuck is selectively driven by the motor. The secondary comput...